New Jersey baseball fans back the New York Yankees over the Philadelphia Phillies 48 - 22
percent, with 16 percent cheering for the New York Mets, according to a Quinnipiac University
poll released today. The Boston Red Sox get 3 percent with other teams at 1 percent each.

The Bronx Bombers lead in every section of the state except in the Philadelphia suburbs,
which go to the Phillies 77 - 14 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack)
University poll finds. Statewide, women like the Yankees 51 - 23 percent, with 13 percent for
the Mets, while men back the Bombers 46 - 22 percent, with 19 percent for the Amazins.

The survey was conducted among the 56 percent of New Jersey adults who are "very
interested" or "somewhat interested" in Major League Baseball.

"More New Jersey fans watch New York television than watch Philadelphia television.
This is what you get in a state with no dedicated TV station, and no Major League Baseball
team," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"We do, however, have two National Football League teams, the New Jersey Jets and the
New Jersey Giants - even if they don't admit it."

From June 14 - 19, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,789 New Jersey adults with a
margin of error of +/- 2.3 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.

The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public
opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio and the
nation as a public service and for research.
For more data or RSS feed- http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling.xml, call (203) 582-5201, or
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36. How interested are you in following major league baseball - very interested,
somewhat interested or not interested at all?